Here Are The Jobs Where Pay Is Growing The Most Right Now

People who pick the humanities over science or technology fields
are often told they're dooming themselves to a dying industry or
the wrong skills.

But according to PayScale's
latest wage index, media and publishing jobs have seen the
most wage growth over the past 12 months of any other
category.

That job category, which grew at 3.9%
and includes public relations jobs, entertainers and
performers, and media and communication workers, significantly
outpaced information technology, which saw wages grow 2.3%.

Here are all the major job categories Payscale tracks, ranked
by wage growth. The index tracks total cash compensation
for full-time, private sector employees. Any job with over 1.7%
growth in wages is growing faster than the national
average:

Also on top are science and biotech jobs, transportation, and
somewhat surprisingly, legal jobs. Tech jobs are still on the
rise, but because they featured strong growth in 2012
relative to other areas, tech wages didn't grow as fast as
other categories in this ranking.

Conversely, retail had the worst year by far, with
wage growth at less than half the national average.

What's most notable about media and publishing's run at the top
(the job category came in first last quarter as well) is that it
comes after a three-year period from 2008 to 2011 that was truly
disastrous, with little or no growth at all.